The British Commonwealth of Nations

Abstract

George VI, born December 14, 1895, son of King George V and Queen Mary, daughter of the late Duke of Teck ; succeeded to the crown on the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, December 10, 1936, and proclaimed King on December 12, 1936 ; married Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (born, August 4, 1900), April 26, 1923.